Effects of the Biquadratic Exchange Interaction in Linear Chain Antiferromagnet

Abstract

The effects of the biquabratic exchange interaction on the temperature dependence of the magnetic specific heat and sublattice magnetization have been calculated with the use of the spin wave theory for linear chain antiferromagnet. The antiferromagnetic spin structure changes abruptly and begins to make a cant at a certain ratio P c of the biquadratic exchange interaction to the Heisenberg one, which is reasonably small enough to appear in the real antiferromagnet with large spin. This change of the spin structure is shown to give significant effects on the magnetic properties.